The General Catalog lists the courses offered by the University of Nevada, Reno, with course descriptions for each course. It also includes all degrees offered with details about the requirement for those degrees. The title has varied over the...

The General Catalog lists the courses offered by the University of Nevada, Reno, with course descriptions for each course. It also includes all degrees offered with details about the requirement for those degrees. The title has varied over the...

In popular myth, anyone can make it to the top in America, no matter how humble his or her origins. That may be true, but few have faced greater challenges along the way than did Rollan Melton. Sonny, as he was called when he was young, was born...

The General Catalog lists the courses offered by the University of Nevada, Reno, with course descriptions for each course. It also includes all degrees offered with details about the requirement for those degrees. The title has varied over the...

The General Catalog lists the courses offered by the University of Nevada, Reno, with course descriptions for each course. It also includes all degrees offered with details about the requirement for those degrees. The title has varied over the...

John R. "Jack" McCloskey, a native of Goldfield, Nevada, was born in 1911. His parents had left Leadville, Colorado, in the wake of labor violence there. McCloskey attended local schools in Goldfield and Tonopah, always interested in the newspaper...

Richard "Dick" Graves was born in Boise, Idaho, on August 23, 1912. An astute businessman, he spent nearly twenty years in the gaming industry in Idaho. When that state banned gambling in 1953, he came to Nevada in 1954 to start over. Though many...

William Fisk Harrah was a native of California, born in 1911. He grew up and received his education in southern California, where his father was an attorney and politician. During his college years, William Harrah and his family encountered in...

H. Clyde Mathews, Jr., was born in California in 1924. He received his education in public schools in California, San Jose State College, and the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School. Mr. Mathews's work and professional experiences range from a job as...

Edward A. Olsen, a native of New York, was born in 1919. He spent nearly his whole life in the West, as a youngster in Colorado, and as a newspaperman in Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. Mr. Olsen was handicapped since birth by a serious physical...

Leonard William Blumstrom is a retired Reno postal supervisor. Mr. Blumstrom was born in Utah in 1911. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Tonopah, Nevada, where his father worked as a miner in the Tonopah Extension mine. An explosion in...

The General Catalog lists the courses offered by the University of Nevada, Reno, with course descriptions for each course. It also includes all degrees offered with details about the requirement for those degrees. The title has varied over the...

Casino gambling (or “gaming,” as the industry prefers) was made legal in Nevada by an act of the state legislature in 1931. Early casinos in Nevada were rough-and-tumble businesses still deeply rooted in the frontier ethos from which gaming had...